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Is that what you're talking about?ŊŒRIJ∑":27ot67xp said:
not trying to be a fanboy or anything, I'm genuinely curious
I have to agree and rage at Bioware for it, especially in comparison to the first game, and to Dragon Age. The thing that pisses me most off about it was the kind of choices given this game, when given. In the first game there were never really paragon, or renegade choices there was a paragon or renegade to do them bet never a morally right or wrong choice. The second game lost this, especially since now you have to go the specified path, what with paragon and renegade being instant-win buttons. The illusion of choosing does have its moments though, especially when transferring saves -> I still remember coming across Helena Blake and the couple arguing about their child's gene-therapy in the second game. Great, if low-key moments.moxie":27ot67xp said:
just my 2 cents
if they were cod 6 and 7, it would say so on the box, but nope. It's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (where the CoD name is more of an afterthought) and Call of Duty: Black Ops. They're even made by two completely different developers! Modern Warfare 2 was by Infinity Ward, while Black Ops was made by Treyarch.
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Just finished Killzone 3 this second, it was a really great game overall, but the ending was a little... weird, I mean, I liked the ending, but I also disliked it, it's not like nothing happened, but it's HOW it happened, it was sort of like Enslaved, you thought something else was going to happen, but it didn't. But this also has a short video after the first set of credits, which seems like it could be setting up for a Killzone 4, although I don't know how that'd work... lol.
god damn it stop being a younger, hotter clone of myself :[moxie":13yf3ygc said:
yes @ all of these things.
WHILE i was playing the 2nd half of ME2, and directly after finishing, i could not stop myself from gushing "FFFF THIS IS THE BEST THING". but after some time passed, i got to thinking about its flaws, and you hit the nail on the head on all of your points.
i really really enjoyed the battle system for this game, it was actually HUGELY fun for me. but bioware watered down the wrong parts to make it more accessible.
you could get load out options, but they weren't really options. it was giving you choices like "you could pick a sniper rifle that's POWERFUL AND FAST, or you could keep using that one which is WEAK AND SLOW. your pick! :D". whereas the 1st game had a plethora of weapons & armor which had smaller improvement gaps, but let you customize them the way you wanted (heat resistance, extended clips, more def, more attack, etc).
and they didn't need to REMOVE the planet exploration with the vehicle. those were fun--just too repetitive. the scanning was not a terrible minigame if it were a minigame--but doing it 10,000,000 times was the only way to get the best ending, which sucks!
imo i wouldn't mind if BOTH made appearances in ME3. i just would want scanning to be a tiny little optional minigame afterthought (like hacking, but less frequent), and for there to be less planets to traverse with the vehicle, but more to do on those planets.
w/ the vehicle in ME1, it was rather fun to randomly find herds of alien animals, or to bust into places that were way higher level than you were expecting. there was one robot-defense factory thing that took me 90+ tries to beat simply b/c GOD DAMN those robots could kill everyone in ONE HIT so i had to set up an intensely planned strategy to infiltrate it. and i totally didn't have to, i just really fucking wanted to do it.
i wonder how much of my life would have been wasted on that game if the developers had really focused more on the optional details like that.
ME1 did not pull off spectacular character development as well as I had figured it would, based on my experience with KOTOR. I found myself caring little for my party members, outside of Wrex and Joker (who wasn't a party member, but a crew member ... w/e). of the love interests, i only picked liara b/c she was alien. she, kaidan, and ashley had severely impersonal & uninteresting/bland personalities. tali was just kind of meek. garrus had a stick planted severely up his turian ... excrement outport.
but in ME2, i absolutely LOVED a few of the characters. tali and garrus's characters were sculpted in a FANTASTIC way. i didn't really even pay much attention to them in ME1, but were easy favorites in ME2. mordin, of course, always had something AMAZING to say. thane was interesting & unique among the other headstrong characters, and though the melodrama could have been taken down a notch or two, i cared about his ordeal. jack was surprising: i hated her at first, but grew to really like her at the end.
in contrast were the others, though: jacob started out boringly normal, and ended up being boringly normal. miranda was a condescending bitch in the beginning, and by the end was a slightly softer-shelled bitch. samara was basically a (sexy?? what was up w/ that outfit) version of garrus from ME1: one-sided white knight. morinth was the polar opposite and just as one-sided. Grunt suffered from New Coke syndrome: being similar to Wrex (Coke Classic), without being nearly as awesome/satisfying.
(legion was VERY interesting, but unfortunately you can only get it at the very end, so you couldn't become very attached to it. zaeed was cool, but DLC only. i never got kasumi so i can't comment, though she is DLC as well.)
unfortunately though, due to the final mission, you're left at the end with the nasty realization that it's really unlikely that your favorite characters will be playable in ME3. so was all that development & attachment for nothing?
that reminds me though that i've been meaning to play the expansion & read the comics
oh and for ME3: sweet lord SOMEONE give me different genders for the aliens??
like ok all asari are female, fine. hanar are ... genderless jellyfish, i guess. geth are genderless robots. drell are hyper-extremely rare so you're probably only ever going to see thane.
they introduced male quarians in ME2, hooray!
but what about:
- female turians
- female krogans
- female salarians
- female volus (ha)
- female elcor (hahaha)
- female batarians
- etc
there are like 20 diff species, but the only ones with accessible lady parts are asari or human? (and i guess quarians pumped to capacity full of penicillin?)
:/
(if they give us a female elcor as a party member in ME3 who has to do massive blow so she's faster than a slug full of molasses, i'll die happy)
like ok all asari are female, fine. hanar are ... genderless jellyfish, i guess. geth are genderless robots. drell are hyper-extremely rare so you're probably only ever going to see thane.
they introduced male quarians in ME2, hooray!
but what about:
- female turians
- female krogans
- female salarians
- female volus (ha)
- female elcor (hahaha)
- female batarians
- etc
there are like 20 diff species, but the only ones with accessible lady parts are asari or human? (and i guess quarians pumped to capacity full of penicillin?)
:/
(if they give us a female elcor as a party member in ME3 who has to do massive blow so she's faster than a slug full of molasses, i'll die happy)
Venetia":16jdkjr9 said:
make it happen BW
i figured i was the only one who actually enjoyed the mako, or atleast the idea of it maybe. scanning was just the pits
all of the party members were mostly improved in ME2 (mordin being the best, i never thought i would see bioware pull off a really good character like that and still manage to have him delegated to the role of "comic relief" more often than not, although his voice actor helped a lot too)
but i actually liked ashley a lot, she was my homegirl who would occasionally say extremely racist things and make everyone in the room uncomfortable
she had p realistic flaws, and between the way she talked about her family and beliefs and everything like that idk, she seemed well-written without being an up in your face, larger than life character
the only character that really annoyed me was liara, she seemed to go through some decent growth during 2, but something about her just rubs me the wrong way. maybe it's the voice